walkabouts needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 19 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 312 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
walkabouts is the highest-scoring word from walkabouts, worth 19 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 312 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in walkabouts — and it is walkabouts itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 19 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling walkabouts produces exactly one nine-letter word: walkabout. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 18 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in walkabouts. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are outwalks and walkouts, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in walkabouts produces 6 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are outwalk and walkout, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling walkabouts turns up 17 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are baulks and kubasa, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 62 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in walkabouts. If a familiar word is all you need, start with about, autos, blast, blows, boats, bowls, and talks. For points, the strongest play is bawks — worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in walkabouts produces 128 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with also, auto, bats, blow, boat, bowl, and bows. For points, the strongest play is bawk — worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling walkabouts turns up 74 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ask, bat, bow, bus, but, lab, and law. For points, the strongest play is wok — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 20 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in walkabouts. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, aw, ok, ow, so, and to. For points, the strongest plays are ka and ok — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
walkabouts is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, and in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it's playable exactly as it stands and needs no unscrambling.
The 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record three senses for walkabouts. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 19 points on a Scrabble board:
walkabouts is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing walkabouts unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is walkabouts, worth 19 points in Scrabble, and no other word from walkabouts earns more points in Scrabble. Words With Friends prices the same letters differently, so the top of the list changes on a Words With Friends board. Both scores count tile values only and exclude premium squares.
The letters in walkabouts produce 312 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 1 nine-letter word, 3 eight-letter words, 6 seven-letter words, 17 six-letter words, 62 five-letter words, 128 four-letter words, 74 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.